Janet’s video is a wonderful counterpoint to the ubiquitous Christian propaganda about transwomen being “mentally ill,” and Ruth Jacob’s website devoted to making people think trans women are mostly AIDS infected prostitutes.

As a successful and professional transwoman, I’m sure she will be an inspiration to a lot of young trans folks trying to cope with the ubiquitous harassment from the undereducated.

that person doesn't even remotely resemble a guy so it's hard they've had any "ubiquitous harassment to cope with"

time for today's reason that Barry O won't be re-elected:

"There’s no need to look beyond the headlines this month: both the jobs report and the unemployment numbers for May are telling the same grim story. A pathetic 54,000 new jobs were created last month — that’s significantly below the pace needed just to keep up with population growth — and unemployment went up, to a gruesome 9.1%.

Statistically speaking, both of these numbers are flat. But flat is, obviously, not remotely good enough in an economy where all stimulus — both fiscal and monetary — is coming to an end and where the single most important indicator of whether we’re successfully recovering from the Great Recession is in the employment figures.

If you do want to go beyond the headlines, things look if anything even worse: the average duration of unemployment, for instance, just hit another new record at 39.7 weeks; a full 44% of all unemployed people have now been jobless for more than six months. And on top of that, it turns out that the government’s statisticians were overly optimistic for the past couple of months: the payrolls numbers for March and April were revised downwards by 39,000 jobs."

David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white nationalist activist and writer, and former Republican Louisiana State Representative. He was also a former candidate in the Republican presidential primaries in 1992, and in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1988. Duke has unsuccessfully run for the Louisiana State Senate, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and Governor of Louisiana.

A former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Duke describes himself as a racial realist, asserting that "all people have a basic human right to preserve their own heritage." He is a strong advocate of opposition to Zionism as well as what he asserts to be Jewish control of the Federal Reserve Bank, the federal government and the media. Duke supports anti-immigration, both legal and illegal, preservation of what he labels Western culture and traditionalist Christian "family values", strict Constitutionalism, abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, voluntary racial segregation, ardent anti-communism and white separatism.

Anon, you have twice talked about the design of the human body as proving that God's intention was for people to be heterosexual. Let me mention two anomalies and see what you say about them.

First, the clitoris is the organ that triggers orgasm for the female and makes sex pleasurable for her. Yet it is placed outside the vagina, where the penis does not stimulate it during sexual intercourse. Clearly this design does not favor heterosexual penile penetration -- stimulation of the clitoris is just as easy for a woman as for a man to do.

Second, the prostate gland in a man is situated just inside the anus, where it can be pleasurably stimulated during anal intercourse. There is no other way to reach it.

If God designed the human body for straight sex, he sure went about it in a strange way!

"In 1992, a study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that only 26% of men 18 to 59 and 20% of women 18 to 59 had engaged in heterosexual anal sex; a similar 2005 survey (also conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) found a rising incidence of anal sex relations in the American heterosexual population. The survey showed that 40% of men and 35% of women between 25 and 44 had engaged in heterosexual anal sex. In terms of overall numbers of survey respondents, seven times as many women as gay men said that they engaged in anal intercourse, with this figure reflecting the larger heterosexual population size. According to the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB), although anal intercourse is reported by fewer women than other partnered sex behaviors, partnered women in the age groups between 18-49 are significantly more likely to report having anal sex in the past 90 days.

In a 2007 report entitled Prevalence and Correlates of Heterosexual Anal and Oral Sex in Adolescents and Adults in the United States, published in the Journal of Infectious Disease, a national survey of Family Growth found that 34% men and 30% women reported ever participating in heterosexual anal sex. The percentage of participants reporting heterosexual anal sex was significantly higher among 20- to 24-year-olds and peaked among 30- to 34-year-olds. Another survey in, 2008, focused on a much younger demographic of teenagers and young adults, aged 15–21. It found that 16% of 1350 surveyed had had this type of sex in the previous 3 months, with condoms being used 29% of the time. However, given the subject matter, the survey hypothesized the prevalence was probably underestimated.

In 2009, Kimberly R. McBride published a clinical report in The Journal of Sex Research which stated that changing norms may affect the frequency of heterosexual anal sex behaviors and suggests that there is a role for the exotic in the sexual repertoires of some heterosexuals" "[F]or a certain number of heterosexuals, anal intercourse is pleasurable, exciting, and perhaps considered more intimate than vaginal sex...". McBride and her colleagues investigated the prevalence of non-intercourse anal sex behaviors among a sample of men (n=1,299) and women (n=1,919) compared to anal intercourse experience and found that 51% of men and 43% of women had participated in at least one act of oral–anal sex, manual–anal sex, or anal sex toy use. McBride and Janssen found that the majority of men (n=631) and women (n=856) who reported heterosexual anal intercourse in the past 12 months were in exclusive, monogamous relationships: 69% and 73%, respectively."

Why?

"The abundance of nerve endings in the anal region and rectum makes anal sex pleasurable for many women and men. Some men get pleasure from anal penetration that stimulates the prostate gland, which lies between the rectum and the rest of the male reproductive organs."

And

"Many people find anal sex pleasurable, and some may reach orgasm—through stimulation of the prostate in men, and clitoral and G-Spot leg stimulation in women. However, many people find it painful as well; in some cases extremely so, which may be due to psychological factors in some cases."

It would have been a simple and obvious thing for God to put the glans clitoris inside the vagina if He intended for women to enjoy penile intercourse. Instead He put it where it is easily accessible to both men and women -- an arrangement that results in seventy five percent of women being unable to attain orgasm from heterosexual intercourse.

And there is no sensible reason to put the male prostate in a place that can only be stimulated by insertion of something penislike into the anus. In fact, there is no reason, given the function of the prostate, for God to have made direct stimulation of that gland so goshdarn pleasurable at all.

Anon, I am only saying that the human body seems to be designed -- if you want to think it was "designed" -- with something other than penis-in-vagina intercourse in mind. Your religious argument fails, is what I'm saying, the design of the human body is optimized for something other than straight sexual intercourse. You can continue to believe that God frowns on alternative sexualities, but your argument from the design of the body fails.

And as far as things being "well known" about gay people using drugs for the pain of anal intercourse, here's a question -- do straight people use drugs for the pain of anal sex, since they practice it many times more frequently than gay people? This "fact" is only well-known to you, and perhaps the kid on the playground you told it to you.

And you will find that sadomasochism is practiced very much more by heterosexuals than gays and lesbians, as well. Your attempt to associate gays with kink is transparently naive.

My conclusion from your assertions here is that your spouse must be royally frustrated and bored.

“God didn't make homosexuality. Casual observation is enough to demonstrate to any objective observer that the human body wasn't designed for such activity.”

Casual observation of the human body by the objective observer provides plain evidence that that if said body was “designed” in any sense, it was clearly designed by a government committee, and not any kind of omnipotent God.

Nothing else could explain why a sewage treatment plant was run right through the center of a world class amusement park.